Name
Abstract | ||
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We consider a two-echelon supply chain problem, where the demand of a set of retailers is satisfied from a set of suppliers and shipped through a set of capacitated cross-docks that are to be established. The objective is to determine the number and location of cross-docks and the assignment of retailers to suppliers via cross-docking so that the total cost of pipeline and retailers inventory, transportation, and facility location is minimized. We formulate the problem as a nonlinear mixed integer programming. We first derive several structural results for special cases of the problem. We also demonstrate that the Capacitated Plant Fixed-Charge Transport Location Problem is a special case of our problem. To solve the general problem, we show that it can be written as a cutting stock problem and develop a column generation algorithm to solve it. We investigate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm numerically. We then extend the problem by allowing different truck capacities as decision variables. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1287/trsc.1120.0454 | Transportation Science |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
nonlinear programming,facility location,inventory,mixed integer programming,supply chain management,algorithms | Mathematical optimization,Column generation,Nonlinear programming,Facility location problem,Supply chain management,Integer programming,Cutting stock problem,Supply chain,1-center problem,Mathematics,Operations management | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
48 | 1 | 0041-1655 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.40 | 20 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi | 1 | 35 | 5.52 |
| O. Berman | 2 | 1604 | 231.36 |
| M. Reza Baharnemati | 3 | 3 | 0.40 |